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Explosive device found in London
By The New York Times
Published: 06/29/2007

LONDON — British police said they discovered an explosive device in a car laden with gasoline, nails, and gas canisters in the West End theater and entertainment district of central London early today and began a terrorism investigation.

The police said the car, a silver-green Mercedes, had been abandoned outside a nightclub.

Peter Clarke, Britain’s most senior counterterrorism police officer, said that if the explosives had detonated “there could have been significant injury or loss of life” because the car was parked in a busy part of London where “many, many people were winding up a night out in clubs and elsewhere.” Read more.

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